59 Quotes About Progressivism

Edward Bellamy's eugenic utopian novel, "Looking Backward" was the inspiration for American Progressivism.

Far-seeing patriots should turn scornfully from men who seek power on a platform which with exquisite nicety combines silly inability to understand the national needs and dishonest insintcerity in promising conflicting and impossible remedies.

PROGRESSIVISM = EUGENICS: Centrally Planned economies tempt population control.

You are cordially invited to go fuck yourself.

What came in the end was only a small war and a quick victory; when the farmers and the gentlemen finally did coalesce in politics, they produced only the genial reforms of Progressivism; and the man on the white horse turned out to be just a graduate of the Harvard boxing squad, equipped with an immense bag of platitudes, and quite willing to play the democratic game.

Conservatism, in its original sense, has no specific ideological content at all, since everything depends on what one is trying to conserve. In the last days of the Soviet Union, for example, those who were trying to preserve the existing Communist regime were rightly referred to as “conservatives,” though what they were trying to conserve had nothing in common with what was advocated by Milton Friedman, Friedrich Hayek or William F. Buckley.

You cant have "equal opportunity" if you put your thumb on the scales in an effort to force equal results.

To lose one's life is but to lose the present; and, clearly, to lose a defiled, worthless present is not to lose much.

The world was changing, and he was running out of places to hide.